Staff Nurse in School Nursing

Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake and complete secondary health assessments and discharge appropriately.

Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to school age population and be involved with supporting the health questionnaires.

Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the school nurse as required.Support specific public health initiatives for children and young people, e.g. Childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles, emotional health, following up the underweights as appropriate.

Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education. Provide advice / support and manage the referrals as appropriate.

Support the school nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, e.g. chimat, public health observatory to inform work undertaken.

Undertake health need assessments as delegated by the school nurse, of children and young people, including, Child Protection Health Assessments reporting back findings to the school nurse.

Identify and support children, young people and families in need of universal plus services through Early Help assessment and be the lead professional when applicable.

Work with parents, carers, specialist health professionals and others to support the development of and review in-school care plans for pupils with complex health needs and long-term conditions annually or sooner if required. Including providing or coordinating support, education and training for families, parents, carers and school staff.

Support children, young people and families during transition into school, and from primary to secondary including reviewing reception and year six questionnaires, acting on concerns raised, plan and evaluate support given and feedback to school nurse.

Have knowledge and understanding of Coventry Local Safeguarding Children Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals toChildrens services when a child or young person is deemed at risk. As delegated by the school nurse provide written reports and chronologies as required, participating in strategies, initial case conferences, review case conferences and core groups where health needs are identified, and feeding back to the school nurse.

Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.

Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.

Work with the school nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based.

Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme when opportunities arise with contacts with children, young people and families.

Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7.

In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, e.g. text, emails, phone calls.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

Maintain accurate records at all times, ensuring written work is countersigned by trained staff in line with trust policy.

Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.

Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal.

Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision.

Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

Measurable Result Areas:

KPIs for the service are achieved.

Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services.

Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery.

Undertake health assessments for school aged Looked After Children (LAC) as delegated by the LAC team, ensuring all children and young people have an up to date health care plan which address identified health needs, referring / signposting to other services as appropriate.

Communications and Working Relationships:

Support new staff and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking a mentor/preceptor role.

Delegate work appropriately to School Nurse Assistants.

Supervise, mentor and assess nursing students where required and Post registration students undertaking community experience.

Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.

Undertake appraisals for the skill mix team to promote staff development.

Prioritise and attend team meetings to ensure effective communication within and outside the team.

Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy.

Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse
• Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.

Experience

Essential

• Must have post registration experience, minimum of 12 months.
• Must have experience of working with children, young people and /or families.
• Must have experience of working in teams
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery

Skills

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
• Have an understanding and awareness of LSCP Child Protection policies and procedures.
• Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
• Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to prioritise work delegated.
• Must have knowledge of the public health role in school nursing, and demonstrate issues affecting children & young people.
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
• Must have knowledge of clinical supervision.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to remain calm and focused under pressurised situations
• Demonstrates compassion and empathy
• Self-motivated and can motivate and inspire others
• Professional presentation and communication style

Desirable

• Embraces innovation and creativity

Other

Essential

• Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role
• Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
• Must be legally entitled to work in this country
• Must be prepared to work between 8am - 8pm and weekend if required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MoatHouse Leisure Centre

Moat House Leisure & Neighbourhood Centre

Coventry

CV2 1EA

Employer's website

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)